Superintendent Walsh says as well as appealing to members of the public for information, officers will tell the community what they are working on via the page.

"If people would like to be a bit more closely connected to us and our activities including crime and traffic operations they will be able to access that information on our Facebook page," she says.

The Eyewatch page will provide police with an opportunity to extend their reach into online communities.

"In one case Geelong police asked for assistance to identify an offender over an attempted sexual assault and 30,000 people saw that post in their news feed over one weekend period," Superintendent Walsh says.

"I know there's an awful lot of armchair detectives out there and we'll be encouraging people to use those skills and to develop their relationship with us and let us know via the local stations or crime stoppers."

Superintendent Walsh, who served as the Chair of the Neighbourhood Watch Australasia Council for four years says it's great to finally see this come to fruition.

"It's a reinvention of Neighbourhood Watch as we know it...to see Neighbourhood Watch Australia partnering with the local area makes me very proud."

She hopes this new initiative will help encourage young people to become involved with Neighbourhood Watch.

"The very original discussions were how to involve more young people. It's certainly not to the exclusion of those that meet in a traditional Neighbourhood Watch manner."

Superintendent for the Baw Baw, Latrobe and South Gippsland Police Districts, Tess Walsh hopes the community will provide police with information that may help them in solving crimes via the Eyewatch page